With 216 Million Mobile Subscribers, India Ranks Second
Adding the 10.16 million wireless (GSM, CDMA, WLL) subscribers in March, India overtook USA to come in at second place after China. The total number of wireless subscribers now stands at 261.09 million.
A total of 10.40 million telephone connections (wireline and wireless) have been added during March 2008 as compared to 8.49 million connections added in February 2008 - which is a good sign. This also implies a reach of 300.51 million at the end of March 2008 against a reach of 290.11 million in February 2008 taking the overall tele-density from 25.31% in February 2008 to 26.22% in March 2008.
Broadband, defined as speeds above 256 Kbps, had a subscriber base of 3.90 million at the end of March 2008 against that of 3.47 million at the end of February 2008. Clearly we have a long way to go to achieve its target of 20 million broadband subscribers by 2010 - more so if TRAI actually goes ahead with its proposed definition of broadband.
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